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1) The race
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Protecting a woman aviator whose violent husband has already committed one murder, Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency oversees the woman's participation in a daring 1910 cross-country race, which is being sponsored by a wealthy newspaper publisher.
Author
Series
Private volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Berlin office of the world's most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player, and a seedy nightclub owner.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a mystery seminar cruise during the holiday season, amateur sleuth Alvirah, private detective Regan, and their family members find their voyage overshadowed by a ghost spotting, the disappearance of a fan, and an unexpected storm.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In tranquil Branscombe, New Hampshire, for the holidays, private investigator Regan Reilly and amateur sleuth Alvirah Meehan investigate shenanigans involving the local mega lottery in the midst of preparations for a local festival.
7) End of watch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves. In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator...
8) The spy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.
9) Unspoken
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paranormal investigator Della Tsang enlists the help of the mysterious and infuriatingly gorgeous Chase Tallman--a vampire with his own hidden agenda--to investigate a twenty year old murder case in which the accused killer is none other than her own father.
10) The wrecker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc.
12) Sixkill
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When infamous actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of rape in murder, the Boston PD calls on Spenser to make heads or tails of the case. Although the evidence is mounting against Jumbo, Spenser makes a break when he teams up with Jumbo's bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, and uncovers some secrets involving the murder victim.
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Part Irish, part Native American, Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor puts aside his grudge against the small Minnesota town that rejected him as a sheriff to investigate a sinister conspiracy responsible for the murder of the local judge.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again....
15) First family
Author
Series
Sean King and Michelle maxwell volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Summoned by First Lady Jane Cox to rescue her niece from kidnappers, investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are pushed to the limit in a search that is hampered by the highest levels of government security and Michelle's personal demons.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture-and perhaps something more....